2 Brown University shooting victims ID’d as College Republican leader, aspiring neurosurgeon
An Alabama woman was among the two students killed in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday, according to her church. (Cathedral Church of the Advent/Facebook)
TL;DR
- Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov were identified as the two students killed in a shooting at Brown University.
- Nine other students were wounded in the incident, with one released from the hospital.
- Ella Cook was a sophomore and vice president of the Brown University College Republicans.
- Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a recent high school graduate, had aspirations of becoming a neurosurgeon.
- Cook's family is from Birmingham, Alabama, and Umurzokov's family are naturalized citizens from Uzbekistan living in Virginia.
- A person of interest was taken into custody but later released.
- Police are using surveillance video of a man in black to aid in their search for the gunman.